Technical Officer Systems Design

Shane E. Brennan

Philadelphia, PA ***** C: 856-***-**** E: *.*.*******@*****.*** LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaneebrennan/ Summary Seasoned executive technology leader and startup entrepreneur with deep experience in systems design and architecture across a broad array of platforms and industries. Dedicated executive partner, keeping stakeholders and leads informed of progress, risks, and market fluctuations while being deeply committed to mapping strategic and tactical goals to the org's industry, culture, and size. Motivational and empathetic leader, building and inspiring highly effective teams to deliver with confidence and velocity. Passionate mentor and guide focused on recruiting, developing, and retaining top talent, while preparing team members for increased responsibility, capability, and career growth. Experience The Privacy Co - https://www.theprivacy.co/ Chief Technical Officer January 2019 – Present

Assembled, managed, and motivated an efficient, confident team to build, scale, and evolve the Priiv ecosystem - a zero-knowledge, privacy-first offering unique to the marketplace. Drove technical product strategy with leadership focusing on value and market fit. Responsible for executive management, architecture, infrastructure, monitoring, and integrations.

● Successful audit of existing client and server architecture, driving 6 month plan to mitigate outstanding issues and eliminate tech debt.

● Design of systems and interfaces to address long-term strategic product objectives, concentrating on team efficiency and speed to market.

● Design and execution of highly scalable, zero-knowledge, privacy first integrations across the ecosystem.

● Technologies: AWS Node Mongo Swift Golang React Jenkins Fastlane Sentry ELK 5 Out Solutions, Inc. - https://www.5out.io/

Chief Technical Officer March 2017 – January 2019

Partnering with two founders, conducted research and definition of a distinct product offering addressing optimization opportunities within the hospitality industry. Responsible for the design, prototyping, assembly, and subsequent iteration of a scalable heuristics driven recommendation engine, ingesting large datasets while respecting the security and privacy of our clients and their patrons.

● Generated a flexible, agile roadmap with multiple iterations allowing for immediate feedback on design and display comprehension.

● Initiated user testing to capture real human insights to identify potential data sources and their anecdotal experiences.

● Assisted with VC materials, creating both strategic and tactical references to overall roadmap, specific milestones, risk mitigation plans, and design opportunities.

● Technologies: AWS Node Mongo Golang Python React Jenkins ELK CoCreative (globaledit) - https://www.cocreativ.co/ Chief Technical Officer June 2015 – July 2017

Personally recruited by the executive team during the first of two funding and acquisition cycles to create and evolve the product roadmap to sync the updated scope, scale, goals, and target markets with market goals. Successfully stabilized, maintained, and evolved the product team and product offerings, seeing continual growth in product revenue and market share throughout tenure. Managed and grew design, product, frontend, backend, devops, infra, and QA teams directly

● Drove the mission-critical modernization of infrastructure software and hardware, resulting in dramatically improved reliability and client confidence.

● Developed communication strategy across the org to prioritize features based on value and to optimize the release train cadence with clarity and collaboration.

● Technologies: VMWare ESXI AWS #NET SQL MSDTC AD Flash PostgreSQL zurvu (Reserve/Resy/AmEx) - https://resy.com/

Chief Technical Officer October 2013 – June 2015

Selected by the board to scale Proof Of Concept by partnering with the CEO to create an enterprise-level architecture essential to service the intended client base, while maintaining the iterative flexibility necessary to compete in a startup environment. Enjoyed a highly successful entry into the marketplace, introducing multiple innovative features within a modular architecture now considered commonplace. Acquired by Reserve, followed by Resy.

● Integrated with multiple large scale media companies, powering their reservation systems (Village Voice, etc).

● Created a fully featured reservation management system, including new targeted availability and waitlist features.

● Worked directly with sales and execs to identify, triage, and implement client requested features.

● Technologies: AWS PHP (Laravel) Python Mongo MySQL RabbitMQ MGM+(EPIX) - https://www.mgmplus.com

Vice President, Product & Platform, EPIX March 2011 – October 2013 Selected to lead product and technology efforts for Studio3Partners (now MGM+), a streaming network within the Viacom management umbrella. Responsible for leading the full roster of internal and external product and engineering teams. Led efforts to quickly and safely scale a relatively modest content management system to become a leader in digital-forward cable channels, beating relative heavyweights like HBO to multiple platforms, including Kindle, XBox, and PSNetwork. Oversaw efforts as the first network to stream live events through a custom infrastructure, successfully delivering content without the common outages plaguing the rest of the market.

● Managed transition from internally hosted (within the Viacom NOC) to cloud hosting, increasing capacity.

● Architected and implemented authentication and authorization subsystem to address systemic latency.

● Technologies: VMWare AWS Varnish Java PHP MySQL PostgreSQL Paramount (Nickelodeon/MTV/ViacomCBS) - https://www.paramount.com Director of Platform Architecture, MTV Networks October 2007 – March 2011 Platform Architect on a small team responsible for the support of 700+ brands, sites, and services, focused on creating product offerings for internal brand clients, from forums to authentication to database abstraction layers - creating tools that were easy to implement, well documented, and well supported. Provided consultation during Viacom’s multiple acquisition discovery phases to gauge complexity surrounding integration of a potential company's features and infrastructure into global Viacom ecosystem.

● Built, managed, and maintained numerous repositories of libraries, modules, and widgets, offering internally scaled and supported solutions for common features across the entire portfolio.

● Managed software engineering and reliability teams in domestic and international locations.

● Internal consultant for brand teams integrating features, libraries, and widgets.

● Provided technical expertise and recommendations during due diligence for M&A.

● Technologies: Nginx Tomcat Jenkins/Hudson JAVA PHP JS Ruby Solar Mongo SVN Git Prior Senior Developer/Administrator - Invite Technologies (Google) - 2007 E-commerce Software Architect - TopMan Merchants, LLC (Patent appl 20080195472A1) - 2006 Director of Information Technologies - Southern Counties Title Agency (Surety Title) - 2002 Lead Developer/Assistant System Administrator - Concate Technologies - 2000 Project Manager/Developer - ZeroWait Technologies - 1998 Application Specialist/Lead Web Portal Developer - DocISP (Devon Health Services) - 1997 CRM Specialist, Database and Systems Administrator - Majestic Consulting Group, Inc. - 1995 Education Ohio University, 1995 - B.A., Philosophy

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